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ukranian army is on the march, especially the north east of the country. here the r, recapturing places and regents, such as the town of lyman, according to ukrainian military reports against have also been made in the south of the country. now, despite these successes, some thousands of ukrainian soldiers have been captured by russian forces. maxime is one of them. he is a prisoner of war who took up arms when russia invaded his country. his parents have not heard from him for several months. they now live in constant fear for their son and have not been able to get in touch with him. for maxim's parents, the days are filled with heart ache and uncertainty. every morning you, again, you would give it takes a few minutes. she's holding a photo of her son maxime. she hasn't had any sign of life from him since he was

taken prisoner by the russian military months earlier. she's terrified he's being tortured or that he's no longer alive. you know, so then the court and i sit and cry while my husband still a slave richard prince. when he gets up, i wash my face so you have his head and try to be strong for the day. so you'd be so i only allow myself to cry like that early in the morning if kenya and alexander would cubic invited us in to hear about their son who lives there, maxime would cubic volunteered for military service. for years he'd worked as a ukrainian journalist and stood up for refugees and human rights. when russia invaded ukraine, they tell us maxime decided to fight for his country when unfamiliar goodies doctrine but so she is a pacifist issue. and auntie militarist has been allah's life. yes,

because then she told me what he told me. i have to join the army d. she'll have to defend the values i fought for my whole life. says those max seems parents only found out he'd been taken prisoner from a video shown on russian state media. it showed their son being interrogated in a cellar somewhere with dish. said rosa. it was terrible. latisha, the 1st thing i felt was pure horror. yet the willis, i saw my only child and thought this can't be true. over the following weeks, social media channels close to the kremlin, labeled maxime, a nazi and ultra nationalist. and even a british spy, over and over again, simply because in 2003, he worked as a producer for the bbc. his parents went to the ukrainian military ukraine, security service,

and aid organizations. but no one could tell them anything. they dishes in the book with gospel, my biggest worry is that they won't treat our son as a p o w a dog. but as a criminal m e survey, they've been dealing with many others. zeppelin, leach, i'm worried that they put him on trial. if this using all these lies and trump top of evidence ships, yes, when you freak according to ukraine, security service over 7000 ukrainians have now been taken as prisoners of war by russian forces. the security service is collecting as much information as possible, but its work is highly confidential. so it turned down our interview requests. however, an attorney representing 50 families of p o w's was prepared to talk to us bloody slough. ignore tiff works closely with the security service, trying to bring the p o w 's back home. i see, he thinks russia will be accusing more and more ukrainian soldiers of being nazis or committing other invented crimes. i think this is, sir,

this is done mostly for their political purposes. when you create such an, you know, importance of the person who's great losses, you know, you may use it to in their political, you know, trait max seems parents are determined not to let that happen. so they have filed an emergency appeal with the european court of human rights, hoping it'll put pressure on russia to allow international organizations access to their son. now see what you were doing this so we can find out how maxime of doing nice, think you only really have just one. call them away that maxime in his comrades be set free to see me until then. you're gania and alexander. but cubic are trying to remain strong and fight back the panic and fear they feel for

their son. august drown, lake is one of more than 7000000 people from ukraine who have fled to their homeland. and who have been registered as refugees in a number of european countries. august journey took her to the region of galicia and the very north west heart of spain to the rugged atlantic coast where the weather is sometimes well rough. but although feels at home there, and that has a lot to do with the sea, the locals and one very well coming little town. odessa feels a bit like home. the atlantic reminds august relic of her home region along the black sea. she and her family and about a 100 others led here to northern spain to escape the war in ukraine to my family. so for me it's more easy because it's beautiful place and 2 beautiful people and very kind people in carina. the town is called carino,

which means love or affection in spanish. and that's just what olga and her fellow refugees experience here at the traditional sardine festival. they're already part of the community after just a few months. it's not huge place, but at it's a chance to see everybody to seek law and basil. how are you? the people of carino and galicia made it easy for them to settle down and start new lives. i think we accept every one here. you've got to hear terinio is a welcoming town and of course the ukrainians are welcome and respected here. even both you got other. javier colorado manteca from cardi toss has been helping however, he can for months and he knows all the newcomers. napoleon spoken mcwhorter say, i mean we could get to know each other a bit better if they spoke our language better. the info, but that's just a question of time is don't go much and the kids are great. they really absorb

everything and learn the language super fog, michael robinson carino has less than $4000.00 residents. many of them are elderly and the towns population had been shrinking. as from when give him the hint holding the young people arriving ira rejuvenation for us to get some idea that a body we are getting more people of working age be with it off and that rejuvenates the town when if there were no monet them, it was through interstate, i mean august rel nick and her colleagues feel, they have a bright professional future here in ukraine. they worked for a platform selling spare car parts. they were in carino on business when the war broke out, they wanted to expand their operations to spain and really said there are a lot of advantages because there are people very kind to other people who would like to start business. he, i saw it, sir, it's not this. spain is like, mom,

do ethan tell the seat and 1000 huge cities the can just came for an a want here and to take money from the market and go away. we would like to build very huge business here. today they're visiting their new office spaces for the 1st time. it's a welcome distraction from the war back at home and their fear for their loved ones . their ukrainian colleague magdalena spock can relate. she's been living and carina for many years. and she's put dozens of people in touch with locals. yeah, i move around the difference here. there's a big difference between refugees and migrants for gaming and migrants leave their country because they want to own. they want to come to parochial, they plan things and decide where to live, get, get in such a splendid weekend. benson, don't get a b, b, refugees, don't have that luxury response. or if we had those, they just had off without anything a filing. sonata focused rel,

nick returned to ukraine after the war broke out. she had to fetch her children. 16 year old gorday and 9 year old agata at the border to romania to bring them to safety. so that is, that is easy. because i see a lot of people in july, but i'm saw for my children, one for you. when her ex husband stayed behind and her mother is still in odessa to they talked to each other several times a day thing and nobody say, okay, a normal. he consented. i'm said, i'm missed. i don't or, oh no, i'm glad. and to see you people in so many so. oh, more seeing snobbish,

not formal legacy understanding is this. taking this law after escaping the war, the newcomers want to get back to work. their digital business is helping create jobs in the spanish town. plus the cafe they fixed up has now become a meeting point for young and old. if you were out at sea, you'd be pretty happy if you'd been lucky enough to spot a bolster in a well, wouldn't you? but imagine if your boat were suddenly attacked by one of those animals by killer whale. that is exactly what is happening off the atlantic coast of spain, where there are more and more reports of orca attacks on sailing. yas and on fishing and swore boats. married biologists are faced with a mystery and sailors while they are left wondering how they can stay safe jello. a sailor's worst nightmare. rado

a full grown orca rams. a boat off the spanish coast. hm . the animal is strong enough to damage the sailing on or in the worst case to capsize it with. whoa, it's happened to raphael martinez to. he's had 30 years experience sailing the seas with his wife. and the couple from counties are not easily shaken yet, but their encounter with the orchestra was terrified. you will get 60 there for the full goldfish. suddenly i felt a jolt, industrial sort of the voice on around a $180.00 degrees and was facing north of you up with that. i guess our that was when my wife spotted the auction with that model solomon. so my, the 1st thing i did was radio, the coast guard for help or get direct because when an animal that massive attacks

your birds and you don't know how long it's going to go on what anything could happen. hm. don't make it where the bus beers are growing on spain and portugal atlantic coast. more than 300 incidents have been recorded in the last 2 years. sailors say that the spanish coast guard is having to launch rescue operations on a daily basis for people whose boats have been damaged by orcus. the crew of this boat were able to record the dramatic scenes. orcus also called killer whales, are predators that can weigh up to 7 tons. these 4 orchids pushed the yacht back and forth like a toy. they seemed especially fixated on the rudder. will you believe i was? i work at one sort of years of bloody other. the marine mammals

besieged the boat for about 2 hours. stretch scientists prefer to call the events encounters, but raphael martinez and most sailors are calling them a tax momento. they buy nico for. at one point i felt panic. obama, the oak, as had been added for 15 minutes of it, and suddenly i see a piece of the rudder floating behind us on the way without a rudder. the boat is impossible to steer. the big question is, why are the orcus doing this? or langley to something has been done to them that completely destabilized them. he loved b. it was as if they on a completely crazy fun. yeah. luck a part of the yeah. the port of cornell de la frontera local say the competition for food is making the orc as aggressive. the marine predators and the phishers are both hunting for bluth in tune up in the fight over the prey. fishers have injured

orcus with harpoons, according to animal rights activists. the fishers have a different theory. and some of them may later we think that a sailor accidentally injured in, okay, custody. and that's why the animals and now attacking the under side of the boats that happened before a yellow, vertical book and know got so cindy, we'll researcher, ezekiel under. you prefers to avoid the word attack. he estimates there are only about 40 iberian or has left protecting this endangered species is top priority. run around with it, but again, we feel very difficult to find the cause. scott alongside the yoke is on telling us the la shawna got out. she gave it about what we can say with a high probability is that it's related to a variety of interactions with humans. should i know we think it's a learned behavior over time, which is passed on to the rest of the group. transferred either head, so they that i bought of him. most of the sailors take little comfort in such

explanations. they say scientists and authorities aren't doing enough to insure the sailors safety. raphael martinez says the animals should be monitored with gps transmitters. if nothing is done, he fears one day an orca might be killed bundled, likely to be honest, i feel wrote and your life are in danger. then you defend yourself all of you. i feel sorry for the orchestra, let me. but if it's a question of their life or my life, then i choose mine, but it should never come to that. no, i, we need studies and solutions to the problem. he probably will get a for the couple plan to continue sailing. but one thing they want to avoid at all costs is another encounter with the iberian orcus. meet ludovic, muhammad zayed. he's a scholar of islam,

a mosque founder and openly gay. he was reported to be the 1st french muslim to be civilly marriage to another man. and while many would argue this was his right, there are those who say islam and whole sexuality are not compatible. even in marcia in the south of france, where as i had lives, he has allies in his fight against prejudices. but a path he has chosen as long and risky. all one on long mom ludovic, mohammed's i had, is praying for tolerance and he's happy to do so with a woman. that in itself is already pretty unusual. but the real surprise is that the muslim scholar is openly homosexual and fighting for gays to be accepted in islam or they receive up with effect, this can't go on if there's too much violence, pressure and degradation and gone off it on again, people pretend we don't exist sometimes there's even physical violence in her

families and community healthy long off. i mean, on her come, no dear, after studying to become an, a mom back in his native country of algeria is our head fled here to mar, say, in southern france. in his new home he came out as homosexual and founded in islamic institute. these days he also officiate gay weddings i've flown cur massey that hello to audrey a. thank you for coming her disability dish. i'm very honored to take part in the ceremony. as it ceremony, it's about acceptance and standing one's ground on it officially same sex marriages are not allowed in islam. boy was with a congratulations. bob walk through. that's why sammy mom's in france have threatens i head and pitted muslims against him. as i did come up with a cerebral are very angry without knowing me. it's crazy that people can hate you.

i want to see you dead without even knowing you. bought it saw father kenneth, according to one survey, over 2 thirds of muslims in france, have prejudices against homosexuals of the will. muslims, we don't have that kind of thing. the, the me, we behave with decency, i, i, she no dish earlier fed to death homeless. she had to for us to be homosexual and do such things. and mom is a terrible sind, sang and that's why muslims don't do that. he fake ruth emmy, do my if, if i sound but i had wants to belong to the muslim community. he's already gone on 5 pilgrimages to the holy muslim city of macca. he wants to show that homosexuals can be good muslims. he said it hasn't. that was important to me and those to be physically present and

show to be exist and are part of the community. please call her back to let them know that we have the same practices and that for no less human or spiritual. just because we're of, as they put it different for the on the fell, the a mom is calling for open discussion about a new reformed islam with more tolerance towards minorities. he moderates talks on social media and today's gases are a catholic clergyman and so lima, one of few women who are a moms country. sure enough you get them. so asia, farts is sure that you, well, better than me. there says we have created man, we have created the way and we are created something in between. so lima values her brother and faith and says he is breaking new ground. what linda vic is doing is he is creating an institution. he's institutionalizing and new,

modern i am inclusive islam and this is new. there is nobody offering those tools because i had also wants to protect those who are in danger because of their sexual orientation like this group of homosexual refugees. some have had their lives threatened back in their home countries and their fellow believers here don't always show them tolerance either. well, i think it's time to sound the alarm for toner and the mom has been supporting this artistic worked for years here. the group is putting on a dance performance oh, for cult often, it makes me happy to see how much good at those to participants. and it's

interesting for the audience too, because some struggle to understand these identities either hong, or though just a reality was to audience discovers here throughout the whole. and that's a wonderful thing. i need to go to the cash off to think excessive, amicable in order to win over more people for his cause, ludovic, mohammed's, or had wants to share this with others. he's determined to keep at it despite the risks we before was there. sure. there are moments when you're afraid of her, but not really. and that's not going to hold us back to buy food teams, either. the maids to measure suits, the quintessential outside of the world. styled english gentleman by during the pandemic working from home became the norm. the sartorial shock for london taylor, jim slater demand suddenly dropped. he feared his custom tailored suits would be

replaced by sweaters. but now one of london's most famous mans with streets is buzzing again. with london sab hill row, where men's, where meets tradition. james sleeter opened his shop here in 2008 before that he was a banker. now he offers custom tailored suits primarily for the office. and he was doing good business until the pandemic. generally type of business obviously took a, you know, took, took a huge hit report about 80 percent down in revenue. and since i'm looking it's, it's, it's been incredible. and very few people remain the same shape. ashley low down a will not the one on the health care cool. in i, they sat back and became lazy and older. lots of takeaways it was nothing else to do. oh, so in other ways the locked downs helped fashion changing physics meant new wardrobes. james slater's employees have never been busier. after months or even

years in lockdown. well, many gentlemen feel like trying something new. something a bit looser and more comfortable. fucked on a blue suit in the morning is just one decision, trousers and jacket, comers the policy. and if i pick a jacket out, i have to think about what trousers to put with what shoes and socks you cause a lot more thought and a lot more work for your tailor. therefore, it's all to do with a yearning for frida says fashioned blogger. i'll expect coverage and with the hope the lock downs are now a thing of the past in the business suit is having quite a tough time. but that does something. i think something quite exciting. because if men no longer have to wear the suit as a uniform, they can use the suits as a tool to express themselves. so what we're seeing in london, what we've seen over the last of year and a half or so, is a big di,

cooperating of the suits the suits, has become much, is corporate, and much more of a lifestyle. garmin is a different topic colson than you'd normally buy. and so james sleeter needn't worry that his crowd will go out of fashion. yeah, looks looks very good. yeah, that suit is definitely never going to die. there's always an occasion, you know, to where. so whether it be an interview to a wedding, going back to a question about english gentleman is you can never be addressed. you can never, it's so much better to be addressed it on the dress, by turn up to a cocktail policy. the only person wearing a tie, i could just say the tiles, but also there's nothing wrong with being the best just gone the room for the english gentleman still aspires to be well dressed. he's simply expanded his repertoire and his range of colors, lifestyle choices, liberated from lockdown sartorial elegance,

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